The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-04-02

One OF Cincinnati's chief industries
Il the manufacturing of lead, hfteen
million pounds Of which are made every
year.
Near Toronto is being constructed
the first steel steamer ever built in Can
ada. The engines, however, are being
made in Scotland.
A new industry recently developed
in Hancock County, Maine. is the gath
ering Of white pine and spruce cones
for French and German markets.
"A farmer OF New Hope, Cal. who
planted five hundred acres in potatoes,
has had such an abundant crop that he
calculates that it will yield him $780, 900.
"A Pittsburgh natural gas company
is the largest one in the country. II
supplies over four hundred manufac-
tories and over seven thousand dwell
lings with the entire amount OF fuel
consumed. The total area OF pipe lead
ing into Pittsburgh is given as l,Sll,6 Oz
square inches. 49, Pittsburgh Post.
The great bulk of cheap pocket cut
lery is punched in dies from sheet steel.
Good cutlery is hand-forged, and the
average output per hour for good
workman is from twenty-five to forty
blades, according to size, American
steel is being used good deal for this
purpose. The blades are polished on
walrus hide. Chicago Times.
The decline of the silk industry in
India, for which various causes have
been assigned, has at length been proven
by Mr.. Wood Mason, an English natur-
alist, to be due to adestructive parasitic
disease of the worms. The affection
seems to be identical with "pebrine.
which ravaged French silkworm nur-
series from l849 to 1865, and was eradi-
Gated from Europe by the discoveries OK
Pasteur. -ArEansaw Trdueler.
California made in 1886 $1,000. 600
gallons Of wine. against but 100000
last year. The San Francisco Call says
10000, 900 pounds of grapes have been
shipped East as table fruit, 60,000,000
pounds made into raisins, 10000, 600
pounds made into brandy and over 2l5,-
900, 900 pounds made into wine. The
eastward shipments Of lemons, lines
and oranges will be twice as large as
they were last year, it is said, owing to
reduction in freight charges.
in the town Of CIymer, Chautauqua
County, NJ Y, is a large settlement of
Hollanders, the oldest members Of which
brought from their fatherland the simple
manners and Industrious habits which
have always been characteristic of that
race. Nearly without exception they
are engaged in general farming and
dairying. and to supplement their farm
labors they have introduced an industry
which is carried on in no other place IN
the Union. This is the making of the
wooden shoes, or clogs, which are SO
common in Holland and some other
foreign countries. -Bu6aIo Express.
"A Pittsburgh correspondent tells OF
man named Cook, at Mansfield. O.,
who has spent large portion Of his
life and some $50, 900 in electrical con-
struction and other work. First his
efforts were concentrated on flying
machine. This, of course. was a fall
ure. Then an cvaperating pan for
sorghum realized some $4,000, and
with this he plunged into the field Of
electrical invention. He is now at work
on an electrical contrivance for perpet-
nal motion, from which he expects to
realize 81, 000,0 600. 1t is described as
wonderful piece of mechanism.